Unexpected Things Hurt Quotes

#1. He was startled, but there was that about him which made it impossible to show what he felt, an instant and utter reflex of stillness to counteract all outward evidence of surprise, fear, anything.

Ellery Queen

#2. It interests me to imagine characters shifting from one situation and one location to another for whatever the circumstances may be.

Jhumpa Lahiri

#3. Listening to your own mind gives you "good reasons" why you should be fearful over unexpected events is just like being friends with someone who thinks it's funny to find new ways to hurt you!

Guy Finley

#4. I wonder ... ," she said, "if there was such a thing as time machines, would anyone ever use them to go to the future?

Rainbow Rowell

#5. In nineteenth-century Russia, sauerkraut was valued more than caviar,

Mark Kurlansky

#6. When we decline to talk about what is real simply because it's uncomfortable to do so, we seal our own fate.

Richard Heinberg

#7. I like the fact that we're stripping the icons away. They're the WikiLeaks for the age that we're revealing, with the transparency of the characters. We're unearthing the truth beyond or underneath the myth. I love that aspect.

Joseph Fiennes

#8. Into love and out again, Thus I went and thus I go. Spare your voice, and hold your pen: Well and bitterly I know All the songs were ever sung, All the words were ever said; Could it be, when I was young, Someone dropped me on my head?

Dorothy Parker

#9. Love does not come on schedule or on time. It comes unexpected, it comes unplanned. Do not shut your doors on love just because you've been hurt before. Let go of the need to be loved. Just be loving. Others will be able to see how loving and lovable you are when you express it

Rita Zahara

#10. The horror of the unknown is more frightening than any horror you can understand

M.R. Carey

#11. There are no shadows in the dark.

George R R Martin

#12. Time has never stopped anyone from making use of it.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#13. Spirituality not rooted in the reality of life's material needs rarely effects a meaningful gain.

Gerald Schroeder

#14. Nothing to me is unexpected. No disappointment is unexpected - whether it's movies or people or relationships. I'm always ready for the punch directly between the eyes. So I get hurt, but I never get hurt. Happens all the time.

Brian Grazer

#15. Love and esteem are the first principles of friendship; it is always imperfect if either of these two are wanting.

Eustace Budgell

#16. A fixed ability that needs to be proven, and a changeable ability that can be developed through learning.

Carol S. Dweck

#17. I nodded. I was ready. In fact I was so ready that if he didn't do something soon, if he didn't touch me in the next five seconds, it was very possible I might die. Right there on the bed. Still a virgin.

Sarah Alderson

#18. What was justice, after all, but a particular outcome?

Suzanne Rindell